Base-ball-game apparatus.



PA'IJBNTED SEPT. 8, 1903.

I. J. .EACOB. BASE BALL, GLAME; ABBARATUSg APPLIGATIOK I'ILBD; HAY 5. 1903.-

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R E N N U R A a UNITED, STATES Patented September 8, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

ISAAC J. JACOB, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BASE-BALL-GAM E APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Pater/t No. 738,452, dated September 8, 1903.

Application filed May 5,1903- T Jerial No. 1 5,708- (NO mOde T0 aZZ whom it mayconccrn:

Be it known that I, ISAAC J. JACOB, a citi ers are indicated upon a board and the various movements and combinations of movements, both optional and compulsory, of the players are defined on dials in the travel of indicators or pointers by the spinning movements of the same when coming to rest, whereby are the defined either optional or compulsory results or decisions by the exercise of both skill and chance in the play of the game readily ascertained; and in such connection it relates to the construction and particular arrangement of such an apparatus for playing a game of base-ball combining all the features of skill with chance present in the outdoor game.

The nature and scope of my invention will be more fully understood from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, in which- T Figure 1 is a top or plan view of a board upo which the game is played,- and Fig. 2 is a top or plan view of the indicating apparatus.

Referring to the drawings, (t represents a board of preferably square shape and having on its face the representation of a base-ball field. Near one corner of the board a is outlined the diamond or players in the field b, which is square and has at the corners the representation of home plate I), first base 12 second base 19 and third base Z). On the sides of the square 1) are representations of the infield-players,positions during the progress of the game. Thus d representsthe first baseman, d the second baseman, d the shortstop, and d the third baseman. Within the square I) is the pitchers box 6, within which the pitcher 6' stands, and in alinement with the pitchers box 6 and home plate 1), outside the square 12, is the catchers box 6 with the catcher e therein. Adjacent to the plate b is the batters position c and in the counter.

outfield a is arranged the center and right and left fielders f, f, and f respectively. The board a may be creased along the line a so that it can be folded into smaller compass when not in use. On the field a is also indicated the foul-lines n n. The movements of the playe1s-infield, outfield, pitcher, catcher, and batsman, as well as the baserunners-are indicated by a series of three dials g, h, and t, mounted upon a base m. Over each dial travels the pointer or arrow 9, h, and t". The dial g, with its pointer g,

indicates the movements or operations of the pitcher, and the dial g upon its face shows the various results of the pitchers efforts, either optional or compulsory, in the play of the game-namely, the giving of bases on balls, the striking out of the batsman, and the times when the batsman connects with the pitchers delivery by the striking of the ball for sacrifice or other hits. The dial h, with its pointer it, serves to indicate the batting and fielding of the opposing players, and the dial it therefore has in radial compartments the necessary compulsory combinations of both batting and fielding in the play of the game. The dial 2', with its pointer 2", controls the movements of the base-runners, as clearly indicated upon the face of the dial divided into three defined radial optional compartments in the play of the game.

In the operation of the game the pitchers dial and indicator are first operated. lit the ar-' row stops at Struck out, no further manipulation of other dials will follow. If a base on balls is indicated, then the pitchers dial is again operated, the position of a man on first baseb being indicated by a checker or When men are on bases, then the other dials, with their arrows, are manipulated to indicate the progress of the game.

Having thus described the nature and object of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A game apparatus, comprising three members, one member consisting of a board having on one face the representation of a baseball field, the second member consisting of three dials each havinga pointer, one dial with its pointer indicating the operation of the pitcher, that is, the various results optional or compulsory of the pitchers efforts,

member according to certain position or positions of a pointer or pointers of said dial or dials of the different elements of the second member according to rules of the game, when coming to rest, as defined on the dial or dials in such manner.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

ISAAC J. JACOB.

Witnesses:

J. WALTER DOUGLASS, THOMAS M. SMITH. 

